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When 90% of the people around you are all wearing some shade of blue jeans, its a bit the same as everybody driving around in cars in some shade of grey (which they do at least in Belgium).

That is, it's just really boring. Colour is one of the few things we've got to express ourselves, so it's a shame we don't use it more.

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> Colour is one of the few things we've got to express ourselves

Oh people find all other sorts of mildly yawnworthy ways "to express themselves", from oddly-placed piercings to full-face tattoos to half-baldshaved-half-manbun hairdos to oh-so-snowflake band t-shirts to rainbow-colored socks... among all the noise and clutter, "more colorful pants" wouldn't particularly stand out to me as expressive, whereas by now an unadulterated unmutilated well-nourished clear-eyed non-screen-zombified come-as-you-are face, nowadays, would. In fact, the blander and minimal the clothes and peripherals, the more one's face and head will stand out on its own! That's today's ultimate self-expression, allowing your natural self to shine through in full glory absent all the countless "customization options" people go through to carve out their "unique" avatars =)

Ah, Normcore.

Except in the big cities among the millenials, "normies" seem to become "the intriguing minority" by now =)

I remember my anthropology teacher saying that people assert their uniqueness in culturally constrained ways: tattoos, piercings, dyed hair, etc. You never see someone rebel against mainstream culture by, say, slicing off their nose, scarring their face, or putting a stick through their cheeks. (The latter two, at least, are done in some other cultures.)

No, thank you. I'll take my clothing in shades of black, grey, and blue. Everything matches everything else, and it is freaking fabulous. I'm rarely too over/under-dressed. Even in a rush, my clothes look decent. Not only that, but I find I don't need so many clothes now and definitely don't need as many shoes.

Color? I can save that for my hair, which tends to have blue or green shades. I can save it for a bit of makeup when I wear it. I can save it for paintings and artwork and making nice-looking food.

That does sound boring... I see black jeans, all shades of blue jeans, white jeans and gray jeans on a v regular basis. High waisted, cut off, slim, baggy, "jorts" & their modern, slimmer variants etc

A few years ago there were even lots of very loud turquoise, red and yellow ones around for a time, and honestly I think we're all a little glad that's ended :)

black, gray, white + shades of blue

That's basically what I was moaning about. It's just BW monochrome + blue monochrome.

Bring on the turquoise and fuchsia I say!

Oh man, LA high schools circa 2009 would have loved you!

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